Interesting perspectives, all. Truth is, none of us know what might befall us in the future. Impossible to prepare for everything, isn’t it? Recommendations can be found running from having a 72-hour emergency stash to a full-blown survival group cloistered away at some remote retreat with enough supplies cached to last for years. There was never a more true statement than from Clint Eastwood when he said in one of his movies, “A man must know his limitations”. Limitations associated with prepping could include one’s physical condition, age, financial resources, geography, even time. You can be strong in one area or you can spread yourself out and be weak in all areas.
There are a sufficient amount of real-life events that have occurred the we can learn from with regards to our own preparedness, and none of them are the “Mad Max” type event that has become so popular to talk about on sites like this one. I’m thinking of weather events like Katrina, wildfires in the West, blizzards in the Norther Tier, or floods in the Midwest. Individuals like Selco from the Balkans and Ferfal down in Argentina provide us first-hand accounts of the social and economic disorder they lived through.
I do what I can with the focus on being reasonable. I know what the likely risks are where I live and have taken what I think are necessary and proper precautions to help me survive them even if I am unable to mitigate them entirely. I also operate under the premise that “Loose lips sink ships”, and that acting ignorant is not a bad strategy. 😉